circumstantiality

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Told as it is with Defoe's inimitable circumstantiality, she was so far from understanding it as to rather more than half believe it.

From Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various

A little clever circumstantiality will lull any incipient suspicion; and it must be added that De Foe, in adopting the tone of a bonâ fide narrator, not unfrequently overreaches himself.

From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

The speeches abound in details which may be accepted as authentic, either because there is no reason for misrepresentation or on account of their circumstantiality.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various

It was not a greater circumstantiality of statement than was demanded, but greater directness,—that it should be relieved of what was unessential to its purpose, tending only to obscure it.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various

He gives the whole affair with daring circumstantiality.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 by Chambers, William